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Of the 118 hearings in the House, we are recommending support of 24 and opposition of 17 with 5 being of interest.
Of the 55 hearings in the Senate, we are recommending support of 3 and opposition of 8 with 4 being of interest.

Position	Bill	Title	Committee	Day	Time	Room	State Analysis
Of Interest	HB1437	relative to the membership of the state board of education.	Education	Mon 1/29	1:30 PM	LOB Room 205-207	This bill changes the composition of the state board of education.
Oppose	HB1205	relative to women’s school sports.	Education	Mon 1/29	2:00 PM	LOB Room 205-207	This bill requires schools to designate athletics by sex and prohibits biological males from participating in female athletics. This bill further creates various causes of action based on violations of the provisions in the bill.
Oppose	HB1279	relative to payment by the state of a portion of retirement system contributions of political subdivision employers.	Finance	Mon 1/29	10:00 AM	LOB Room 210-211	This bill provides that the state shall pay 7.5 percent of contributions of retirement system employers other than the state for group I teachers and group II members.
Oppose	HB1508	requiring fiber optic communications service providers to prioritize service restoration for public safety and public health organizations.	Science, Technology and Energy	Mon 1/29	10:30 AM	LOB Room 302-304	This bill requires fiber optic communications providers to prioritize the restoration of communication and Internet access for critical infrastructure of public safety and public health organizations over commercial and residential customers.
Support	HB1576	relative to allowing property owners to opt out of public utilities.	Science, Technology and Energy	Mon 1/29	1:00 PM	LOB Room 302-304	This bill requires public utilities, cooperatives, and municipal corporations providing electric, gas, water, and sewer connection services to allow property owners or existing customers to decline service.
Support	HB1308	relative to parent access to children’s library records.	Children and Family Law	Tue 1/30	11:00 AM	LOB Room 206-208	This bill provides a parent or legal guardian with access to their minor child’s library records.
Of Interest	CACR25	relating to the rights of children and parents. Providing that parents and children have the right to control their health, education, and welfare.	Children and Family Law	Tue 1/30	1:15 PM	LOB Room 206-208	This constitutional amendment concurrent resolution amends the constitution to recognize the rights of children and parents to provide for the protection of their minor children.
Of Interest	CACR17	relating to the rights of parents. Providing that parents shall have a fundamental right to direct the upbringing, education, and care of their minor children.	Children and Family Law	Tue 1/30	1:30 PM	LOB Room 206-208	This constitutional amendment concurrent resolution adds an amendment to the constitution stating that parents have a fundamental right to direct the upbringing of their minor children.
Oppose	SB308	relative to the state minimum hourly rate.	Commerce	Tue 1/30	9:45 AM	SH Room 100	This bill provides for increases in the minimum hourly rate.
Support	HB1159	relative to toilet facilities provided by restaurants and other food establishments.	Commerce and Consumer Affairs	Tue 1/30	10:00 AM	LOB Room 305	This bill would require that restaurants designed to seat 50 or more patrons have at least 2 separate toilet rooms, and eliminates the requirement for separate bathrooms to be gender-specific.
Support	HB1090	repealing the requirement to register “farmers’ market” as a trade name.	Commerce and Consumer Affairs	Tue 1/30	11:00 AM	LOB Room 305	This bill repeals the prohibition against using the term “farmers’ market” in a trade name unless the use met specific requirements.
Of Interest	SB523	relative to the regulation of public school library materials.	Education	Tue 1/30	9:15 AM	LOB Room 101	This bill prohibits material that is obscene or harmful to minors in schools, requires vendors of school library materials to develop appropriate ratings, and creates a procedure for removal and cause of action.
Support	SB339	relative to repealing the graduation requirement regarding Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) applications.	Education	Tue 1/30	9:30 AM	LOB Room 101	This bill removes requirements that students file a free application for federal student aid form (FAFSA) or a waiver for such form prior to graduation, and removes all references to the FAFSA.
Support	HB1446	relative to eliminating the cost for electronic copies of the checklist.	Election Law	Tue 1/30	10:00 AM	LOB Room 306-308	This bill eliminates the cost for an electronic copy of the checklist that is emailed to the requestor but enables the town or city clerk and the secretary of state to charge a fee for electronic copies given on an external storage device.
Support	HB1313	relative to access to the voter checklist by candidates.	Election Law	Tue 1/30	11:30 AM	LOB Room 306-308	This bill enables municipalities to send a copy of the voter checklist electronically to candidates.
Oppose	HB1292	relative to coverage of children under the state retiree insurance plan.	Executive Departments and Administration	Tue 1/30	10:00 AM	LOB Room 210-211	This bill removes the requirement that young adult children covered under a retired state employee’s insurance plan be full-time students.
Support	HB1070	relative to procedures during a state of emergency.	Executive Departments and Administration	Tue 1/30	1:00 PM	LOB Room 210-211	This bill prohibits state employees from cooperating with the executive branch in suspending civil liberties during a declared state of emergency.
Oppose	SB460	establishing the crime of and penalties for unlawful use of unmanned aircraft systems.	Judiciary	Tue 1/30	1:30 PM	SH Room 100	This bill establishes the crime of and penalties for unlawful use of small unmanned aircraft systems (drones).
Support	SB578	relative to criminal pre-trial services and monitoring.	Judiciary	Tue 1/30	2:00 PM	SH Room 100	This bill prohibits criminal defendants on pre-trial release from being required to pay for pre-trial services or monitoring, including electronic monitoring, with the cost instead the be paid by the court where the defendant is charged or through appropriations to the agency performing the pretrial services and monitoring. This bill further requires the agency performing the pretrial services and monitoring to use the least restrictive interventions that are necessary unless otherwise ordered by the court.
Oppose	HB1218	relative to voting for municipal bonds.	Municipal and County Government	Tue 1/30	9:50 AM	LOB Room 301-303	This bill allows for the adoption of municipal bonds by a simple majority vote.
Oppose	HB1362	relative to authorizing municipalities to stabilize rent increases in rental housing.	Municipal and County Government	Tue 1/30	2:30 PM	LOB Room 301-303	This bill authorizes municipalities to enact and enforce rent stabilizing ordinances.
Support	HB1439	relative to vehicle registrations and reciprocal toll collection enforcement agreements.	Public Works and Highways	Tue 1/30	10:00 AM	LOB Room 201	This bill removes the authority of the commissioner of the department of transportation to suspend the motor vehicle registration of owners in violation of reciprocal toll collection enforcement agreements.
Oppose	HB1487	relative to the health effects of 5G technology.	Science, Technology and Energy	Tue 1/30	11:00 AM	LOB Room 302-304	This bill requires certain provisions around measurements of RF-radiation and notification of the effects of such radiation from 5G technology.
Oppose	HB1332	relative to prohibiting electric vehicles from parking in parking garages.	Transportation	Tue 1/30	11:00 AM	LOB Room 203	This bill prohibits the parking of electric vehicles in parking garages.
Oppose	HB1445	relative to electric bicycles, electric scooters, and electric unicycles.	Transportation	Tue 1/30	11:20 AM	LOB Room 203	This bill modifies the requirements for the operation of and equipment required for all classes of electric bicycles, requires the division of motor vehicles to develop procedures for the registration of electric bicycles, and requires that electric scooters and electric unicycles be regulated as motor vehicles.
Oppose	SB428	relative to the use of automated license plate readers by law enforcement officers.	Transportation	Tue 1/30	1:30 PM	LOB Room 101	This bill defines the appropriate use of automated license plate readers by law enforcement officers. The bill also makes an appropriation to the department of safety for digital automatic programming interface to connect data from the division of motor vehicles to the state police.
Oppose	HB1203	relative to prohibiting the charging of rent to charities by charitable gaming facilities.	Ways and Means	Tue 1/30	10:00 AM	LOB Room 202-204	This bill prohibits the charging of rent for facilities or equipment to charities by primary game operators.
Support	HB1346	relative to food service at a bed and breakfast.	Commerce and Consumer Affairs	Wed 1/31	10:00 AM	LOB Room 302-304	This bill permits bed and breakfasts to serve snacks and meals in addition to breakfast.
Support	HB1540	relative to the definitions of full course meals and full service restaurant for purposes of alcohol licensing.	Commerce and Consumer Affairs	Wed 1/31	11:00 AM	LOB Room 302-304	This bill revises the definition of full course meal and full service restaurant for purposes of alcohol licensing.
Support	HB1374	relative to liquor licenses for restaurants.	Commerce and Consumer Affairs	Wed 1/31	11:30 AM	LOB Room 302-304	This bill changes the sales requirements for food for on-premises beverage and liquor licenses.
Support	HB1271	relative to the conversion, combination, and reorganization of boards and advisory boards.	Executive Departments and Administration	Wed 1/31	10:45 AM	LOB Room 306-308	This bill, at the request of the office of professional licensure and certification: 1. Converts the board of acupuncture licensing into an advisory board and makes other amendments implementing this change. 2. Converts the board of family mediator certification into an advisory board and makes other amendments implementing this change. 3. Converts the guardian at litem board into an advisory board and makes other amendments implementing this change. 4. Converts the manufactured housing installations standards board into an advisory board and makes other amendments implementing this change. 5. Combines the advisory board of massage therapists with the advisory board of reflexology, structural integration, and Asian bodywork therapy and makes other amendments implementing this change. 6. Converts the midwifery council into an advisory council and makes other amendments implementing this change. 7. Converts the board of septic system evaluators into an advisory board and makes other amendments implementi
Oppose	SB406	relative to emergency housing assistance and making an appropriation therefor.	Health and Human Services	Wed 1/31	9:00 AM	SH Room 100	This bill directs the department of health and human services to establish a homelessness prevention pilot program, to be administered through municipalities and community action programs. The bill also makes an appropriation to the department of health and human services to assist municipalities in providing emergency housing assistance and preventing homelessness.
Of Interest	SB498	relative to the department of health and human services, division for children, youth and families.	Health and Human Services	Wed 1/31	9:30 AM	SH Room 100	This bill provides that under RSA 169-B, relative to delinquent children, and RSA 169-D, relative to children in need of services, a child may be placed with fictive kin or a child care institution, psychiatric residential treatment program, or other program certified by the department of health and human services.
Oppose	SB559	relative to the definition of vaccine for purposes of the New Hampshire vaccine association.	Health and Human Services	Wed 1/31	10:00 AM	SH Room 100	This bill revises the definition of vaccine for purposes of the New Hampshire vaccine association.
Support	HB1693	relative to the use of psychedelics for therapeutic purposes.	Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs	Wed 1/31	1:00 PM	LOB Room 210-211	This bill allows and regulates the use of psychedelics for certain qualifying medical conditions.
Support	HB1585	relative to medication administration by direct care staff in residential care facilities.	Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs	Wed 1/31	1:30 PM	LOB Room 210-211	This bill directs the department of health and human services, in consultation with the board of nursing, to adopt rules governing the administration of medication by direct care staff in residential care facilities.
Support	HB1010	relative to expanding maternity options and midwifery access.	Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs	Wed 1/31	2:30 PM	LOB Room 210-211	This bill provides that the midwifery council shall not adopt rules limiting care by a midwife based on the patient being pregnant with multiple fetuses, malpresentation of the fetus, the number of prior cesarean sections, or distance from a hospital.
Support	CACR12	relating to the definition of the word “cherish.” Providing that the 1784 word “cherish” shall be replaced by the 2024 word “cherish.”	Judiciary	Wed 1/31	9:00 AM	LOB Room 206-208	This constitutional amendment concurrent resolution reinserts the word “cherish”.
Oppose	HB1169	creating a private cause of action for discrimination based on hairstyles relative to a person’s ethnicity.	Judiciary	Wed 1/31	9:45 AM	LOB Room 206-208	This bill creates a private cause of action for discrimination based on hairstyles relative to a person’s ethnicity. This bill also exempts such causes of action from the jurisdiction of the human rights commission.
Support	HB1220	relative to abolishing the collection of racial and ancestral data for use in a marital application worksheet.	Judiciary	Wed 1/31	10:30 AM	LOB Room 206-208	This bill abolishes the collection of racial and ancestral data for use in a marital application worksheet.
Support	HB1245	relative to release of confidential records of a person appointed a guardian.	Judiciary	Wed 1/31	11:15 AM	LOB Room 206-208	This bill provides that a person appointed a guardian shall retain the right to access and consent to the release of his or her confidential records unless the terms of the appointment provide otherwise.
Oppose	HB1432	relative to prohibiting certain uses of artificial intelligence and creating a private claim of action.	Judiciary	Wed 1/31	1:00 PM	LOB Room 206-208	This bill: 1. Establishes the crime of fraudulent use of artificial intelligence and sets penalties therefor; 2. Establishes a cause of action for fraudulent use of artificial intelligence; 3. Establishes registration of lobbyists who have been found to have fraudulently used artificial intelligence in certain cases; 4. Establishes a mechanism for the enforcement of a ban on the fraudulent use of artificial intelligence in elections.
Oppose	SB315	relative to law enforcement agency reporting on information concerning bias crimes.	Judiciary	Wed 1/31	1:00 PM	SH Room 100	This bill requires a law enforcement agency operating within New Hampshire to collect and report information concerning bias crimes as prescribed by the division of state police.
Support	SB507	extending the time to petition for a new trial in certain cases.	Judiciary	Wed 1/31	1:15 PM	SH Room 100	This bill extends the time to petition a court for a new trial in certain cases.
Support	HB1475	relative to preventing strategic lawsuits against public participation.	Judiciary	Wed 1/31	1:45 PM	LOB Room 206-208	This bill establishes legal process for preventing strategic lawsuits against public participation (anti-SLAPP) as qualified immunity from suit, prosecution, and from liability for any defendant or counter-defendant in any action, case, claim, administrative proceeding, arbitration, or any other legal process that impacts their First Amendment rights.
Oppose	HB1037	relative to repealing limited liability for manufacturers, distributors, dealers, or importers of firearms or ammunition.	Judiciary	Wed 1/31	3:15 PM	LOB Room 206-208	This bill repeals the statute that provides limited liability to manufacturers, distributors, dealers, or importers of firearms or ammunition.
Support	HB1343	prohibiting the use by the governor of emergency orders concerning elections procedures without the written consent of the majority and minority leaders of the house of representatives and senate.	Legislative Administration	Wed 1/31	10:00 AM	LOB Room 203	This bill requires the governor to get prior written or electronic approval from legislative majority and minority leaders to issue an emergency order concerning elections procedures.
Oppose	HB1208	relative to permitting requirements before timber harvesting operations in a wetland.	Resources, Recreation and Development	Wed 1/31	11:00 AM	LOB Room 305	This bill requires that persons or entities conducting timber harvesting operations in wetlands verify compliance with and maintain in their records all permitting documents required for the work being done.
Support	HB1209	relative to observers in motorboats.	Resources, Recreation and Development	Wed 1/31	1:00 PM	LOB Room 305	This bill provides that an observer is not required in a motorboat towing water skiers, aquaplanes, or similar devices, or while engaged in wake surfing, when the motorboat is equipped with a mirror allowing the operator to view the water skiers.
Oppose	HB1229	relative to the purchase and sale of any interest in real property abutting public waters.	Resources, Recreation and Development	Wed 1/31	2:00 PM	LOB Room 305	This bill requires buyers, lessees and transferees of shoreland property to acknowledge minimum requirements for compliance with the shoreland water quality protection act.
Support	CACR15	relating to taxation. Providing that a 2/3 vote is required to pass legislation imposing new or increased taxes or license fees, or to authorize the issuance of state bonds and providing that the general court shall appropriate funds for payment of interest and installments of principle of all state bonds.	Ways and Means	Wed 1/31	9:30 AM	LOB Room 202-204	This constitutional amendment concurrent resolution provides that a 2/3 vote of the house of representatives and the senate shall be required to pass a new tax or license fee or to increase any tax or license fee that has been levied, or to authorize the issuance of state bonds.
Of Interest	SB475	relative to design of a climate-controlled storage facility for the New Hampshire state library.	Capital Budget	Thu 2/1	10:00 AM	SH Room 103	This bill makes a capital appropriation to the department of natural and cultural resources toward the design of a climate-controlled storage facility to properly preserve precious state materials stored within the New Hampshire state library.
Of Interest	SB476	making a capital appropriation to the department of corrections toward the replacement of the New Hampshire state prison for men.	Capital Budget	Thu 2/1	10:15 AM	SH Room 103	This bill makes a bonded appropriation of funds for architectural, engineering, programming, and design and construction documents for the New Hampshire state prison for men.
Oppose	SB533	relative to physical quorums at public meetings.	Judiciary	Thu 2/1	10:00 AM	SH Room 100	This bill enables public bodies to allow one or more members of the body to participate in a meeting by electronic means.
Oppose	SB563	relative to federal immigration enforcement.	Judiciary	Thu 2/1	1:00 PM	SH Room 100	This bill prohibits state and local government entities from adopting sanctuary policies to prohibit or impede the enforcement of federal immigration law.
Of Interest	HB1050	relative to establishing a voluntary waiver of the right to purchase a firearm.	Criminal Justice and Public Safety	Fri 2/2	9:30 AM	LOB Room 202-204	This bill establishes the New Hampshire voluntary do not sell firearms list and prohibits the commercial sale or transfer of firearms to any person who voluntarily waives that person’s right to purchase a firearm and registers to be enrolled onto the list and sets out penalties for violations thereof. This bill further protects from public disclosure any governmental documents relating to the list.
Oppose	HB1336	relative to employees’ firearms in locked vehicles.	Criminal Justice and Public Safety	Fri 2/2	10:30 AM	LOB Room 202-204	This bill prohibits employers from inquiring into, searching for, or banning employee’s storage of firearms or ammunition in their locked vehicles and provides civil immunity to employers for any economic loss, injury, or death that results from an employer’s adherence to this law.
Support	HB1337	relative to the return of weapons and ammunition upon expiration of protective orders.	Criminal Justice and Public Safety	Fri 2/2	11:00 AM	LOB Room 202-204	This bill changes the burden to the plaintiff to file a request for a hearing prior to the expiration of a protective order or else any and all firearms, ammunition, or specified deadly weapons will be returned to the defendant. This bill further removes the prohibition that law enforcement agencies shall not release firearms, ammunition, or specified deadly weapons without a court order, and removes the authorization for law enforcement agencies to charge the defendant a fee for the storage of the firearms, ammunition, and specified deadly weapons. This bill further removes the subsection providing law enforcement agencies release from liability for damage or deterioration to the firearms, ammunition, or specified deadly weapons stored.
Oppose	HB1711	authorizing the state to report mental health data for firearms background check purposes and providing for processes for confiscation of firearms following certain mental health-related court proceedings and for relief from mental health-related firearms disabilities.	Criminal Justice and Public Safety	Fri 2/2	11:30 AM	LOB Room 202-204	This bill authorizes the state to report mental health data for firearms background check purposes and provides for processes for the confiscation of firearms following certain mental health-related court proceedings and for relief from mental health-related firearms disabilities.
Support	HB1701	relative to annulments of records related to involuntary commitments.	Criminal Justice and Public Safety	Fri 2/2	12:00 PM	LOB Room 202-204	This bill creates a process to annul records related to involuntary commitments to the state hospital or secure psychiatric unit.
Of Interest	HB1156	relative to public health, safety, and state sovereignty.	State-Federal Relations and Veterans Affairs	Fri 2/2	9:15 AM	LOB Room 206-208	This bill provides that the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the World Health Organization shall have no jurisdiction in New Hampshire.